For the last two decades, board diversity is increasingly considered as a significant mechanism of good corporate governance. Thus, the question arises whether a heterogeneously or rather a homogenously composed board contributes to the efficiency of a company's management and monitoring....

This thesis investigates the specific characteristics of products from renewable resources and analyses how they affect the choice of efficient coordination mechanisms in business-to-business relationships. Due to the diversity and heterogeneity of renewable resources, this is done by means of...